BRAZIL RAINFOREST Indigenous youths use tech as 'weapon' to protect Amazon 09-05-2023 16:38 Txai Surui, and many young Indigenous activists, use technology instead of weapons to defend the Brazilian Amazon.
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS Indigenous Brazilians demand more land reserves 26-04-2023 12:11 Thousands of indigenous Brazilians gathered in the capital this week to demand the creation of new reserves on their ancestral lands.
CONTROVERSIAL COURT RULING Mendoza Chamber of Deputies denies Mapuches’ status as indigenous peoples 06-04-2023 18:45 Mendoza Chamber of Deputies declared Mapuches “should not be considered original Argentine peoples” in a resolution last Thursday.
INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land 15-02-2023 11:09 Displaced by decades of war as well as commercial and cultural intrusions, the Siekopai people live scattered between villages straddling the Ecuador-Peru border, far from their ancestral territory, which they are fighting to reclaim.
Indigenous Rights Military redeployment turns Chile's Mapuche areas into powder keg 27-05-2022 14:51 With military troops once again patrolling their ancestral lands, members of the Mapuche indigenous community in Chile's south are angry.
Environment COP15 talks open facing 'emergency' over Earth's degraded land 10-05-2022 02:06 Nine African heads of states attend opening session of the UN's COP15 talks to fight desertification and land degradation.
Indigenous rights Mapuches seek agreements to solve 'historic debt' with Chile 22-04-2022 20:01 Representatives from Mapuche communities meet in the southern city of Temuco in search of agreements that allow them to settle, the "historical debt" that they consider that the Chilean State owes them.
BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO Brazil's Lula slams Bolsonaro over indigenous policies 12-04-2022 19:35 Speaking at a protest by thousands of indigenous people who are camping out in Brasilia to protest Bolsonaro's policies, Lula drew loud cheers with a promise to undo current President Jair Bolsonaro's policies on indigenous people if elected.
ENVIRONMENT The battle for Brazil's indigenous land hots up 13-07-2021 14:57 Brazil's indigenous peoples are bracing for a legal battle with President Jair's Bolsonaro's government over controversial legislation.